Before you click submit please do everyone a big favor and check over your posts for broken BBcode tags... While you're at it you might as well proofread it and do a spell check. ieSpell There is one for Firefox as well, but I'll have to see if it works with 2.0.

The broken quote tags can be a real problem. If you don't have the tags right your response ends up quoted and we can't always tell who said what.

If you don't know what you are doing... Please read the help docs. If they don't answer your questions, you can aways ask...

Another tip: If you are going to make numbered lists, either don't use numbers and parenthesis 1) ... Or click on Additional Options and click "Don't use smileys." If you are quoting someone with a list like this, do the same to your reply.

Is the post I am quoting directly above my reply? If it is you probably don't need to quote the post. If it is not, or you find that someone has replied while you were composing your post, you may want to quote portions of the post that relate directly to your comments.

Do I really need to quote the entire post in my reply? Take a couple of minutes and select only the portions of the quoted post that you wish to comment on... Especially if you will only be making short comments. Me too. or I agree. should be avoided.

Do I really need to quote this quote of a quote? Don't chain quote. Either pick the one quote that relates to your comment or just reply without a quote.

Is the post I am quoting directly above my reply? If it is you probably don't need to quote the post. If it is not, or you find that someone has replied while you were composing your post, you may want to quote portions of the post that relate directly to your comments.

Do I really need to quote the entire post in my reply? Take a couple of minutes and select only the portions of the quoted post that you wish to comment on... Especially if you will only be making short comments. Me too. or I agree. should be avoided.

Do I really need to quote this quote of a quote? Don't chain quote. Either pick the one quote that relates to your comment or just reply without a quote.

Is the post I am quoting directly above my reply? If it is you probably don't need to quote the post. If it is not, or you find that someone has replied while you were composing your post, you may want to quote portions of the post that relate directly to your comments.

Do I really need to quote the entire post in my reply? Take a couple of minutes and select only the portions of the quoted post that you wish to comment on... Especially if you will only be making short comments. Me too. or I agree. should be avoided.

Do I really need to quote this quote of a quote? Don't chain quote. Either pick the one quote that relates to your comment or just reply without a quote.

How to post hella-long urls such as CAP Knowledgebase answers and other such links without breaking the forums:

Add an equal sign (=) immediately following the url in the first url tag. It will look like this inside the brackets: url= Copy and past the url you wish to use and place it immediately following the equal sign (=) in the first set of brackets. Between the two url tags enclosed in brackets type something short but descriptive about the link, or use linky if you are lazy.

Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 60 days.Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic.

Check the date of the last post to the topic before you reply. If you get a warning while posting that the topic has not been replied to in 60 days or more, reconsider replying. However; a bump is typically better than starting a new topic if it is the most recent topic on the subject.

Don't be that guy who bumps a dead topic with nothing of consequence to add.